When Su Qingluan arrived at Nongmoxuan, the shop was already empty. A young clerk was using an abacus to slowly sort out the day's accounts, while Xu Kekuan held Su Xueyan on his lap, one arm around the little girl to prevent her from falling, and with the other, he held Su Xueyan's hand holding the brush, writing stroke by stroke.
Su Qingluan walked over the threshold and saw the waiter look up first: "Sir... Oh, Madam Su, are you here to take my sister back?"
Su Qingluan nodded and looked in the direction of her sister.
This time, the little girl kept her composure and finished the word at hand before breaking free from old man Xu Kekuan's arms and running to Su Qingluan's gate.
The reason why I said "this time" is because there was a similar situation before. Xu Kekuan held Su Xueyan's hand and taught her calligraphy stroke by stroke.
Frankly speaking, Su Qingluan had to admit that, purely in terms of calligraphy level, both Mu Xingzhi and Xu Kekuan were much better than her half-baked level.
So Su Qingluan was extremely happy to have Teacher Xu Kekuan teach Su Xueyan calligraphy.
However, the better the teacher, the more likely they are to have their own little temper. Although Mr. Xu Kekuan was usually cheerful with Su Qingluan, and was particularly kind and gentle to him because of Su Qingluan's good cooking skills, when it came to "teaching students", it was not so easy.
Of course, generally speaking, during non-teaching hours, Xu Kekuan really treated Su Xueyan like a little granddaughter, and he often bought snacks for the little girl without Su Qingluan's knowledge. Of course, although Xu Kekuan was very cautious to prevent Su Qingluan from finding out, he had a bad teammate like Su Xueyan, so most of the snacks were confiscated.
However, when it came to learning calligraphy or using an abacus, Xu Kekuan was very strict with Su Xueyan.
Unlike Su Qingluan's half-baked calligraphy learning method, which had no method and relied solely on her intuition to learn whatever she was taught, the first thing Xu Kekuan required Su Xueyan to learn was not how to write or whether her writing posture was correct, but whether her mentality was "calm and stable."
So when Su Qingluan first arrived, the little girl's heart flew away. Even though she had to write, she couldn't help but turn her head towards Su Qingluan. Xu Kekuan scolded her severely several times for this.
After several "corrections", no matter what happens around her, Su Xueyan can now at least finish writing one word before doing other things.
After Su Qingluan knew about this, she had to admire Mr. Xu Kekuan: It turned out that the old man was very experienced and thoughtful.
Xu Kekuan's intention in doing this was not simply to make things difficult for Su Xueyan, but to cultivate a very important quality in her that Su Qingluan completely ignored - concentration.
In fact, it is no wonder that Su Qingluan ignored this point. After all, she is not a real teenager - not to mention that it is difficult for teenagers to teach those who are several years older - and she has no experience in early childhood education. So no matter what she does, even if she tries her best to be considerate of the children, it is still "adult thinking."
In Su Qingluan's mind, "important things must be completed with full concentration and effort", and her ability to identify things as an adult also allows her to understand what are the "important things that need to be completed with full concentration".
However, children are naturally interested in more interesting, newer things or people they like more, and are easily attracted by these things. This is human nature.
In order to acquire concentration, cultivating interest is one aspect, but before fully cultivating interest, a certain degree of "forced concentration" is also necessary - after all, for most people, learning is painful, and it is probably impossible to cultivate concentration by relying on "interest" alone.
Su Qingluan caught her sister who jumped into her arms and looked at Xu Kekuan: "Grandpa, you have worked hard. My sister is very clever!" Although this little girl is an angel most of the time, she is still a five-year-old child after all, and she is lively and active at this age.
To be honest, looking at Xu Kekuan's gray hair and skinny body, she was really worried that if her younger sister became naughty, Grandpa Xu's old waist would not be able to withstand the torment of the naughty child.
Su Xueyan was unhappy when she heard this: "Sister, Grandpa Xu praised me three times today!" As she said that, she stretched out her fair little hand, first lowered her head and carefully pinched her thumb and little finger, then stretched out three fingers and made a "three" gesture towards Su Qingluan.
This little gesture made Su Qingluan so cute that she screamed inwardly, but she had to suppress it on the surface to avoid accidentally revealing a weird smile: "Really? There are also good snow geese today?"
The little girl nodded vigorously, and Xu Kekuan smiled and waved his hand: "Su girl, don't you sometimes jump around when you're with me? Why can't you do that when you're with your sister?"
Su Qingluan recalled how she had rushed here like she was on fire when she first met Old Master Xu, and said with a guilty conscience, "She's still a child, she needs to be more careful about self-cultivation."
"Children should be more lively - not to mention that in my eyes, you are also a half-grown child, why are you acting so pretentious?" As he said this, he called the waiter next to him to the back to get out a small package and put it in Su Qingluan's hand, "I bought this for Xiao Xueyan, you are not allowed to be greedy!"
Su Qingluan took a look and saw that it was the sour plum cake from the best-selling pastry shop in town. It tasted sweet and sour and was shaped like a light pink flower. It had a faint floral fragrance and was probably dyed with the juice of colored petals. It was very popular among young girls and wives, including Su Xueyan, of course.
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